Ch. 2491..2500

 

Chapter 2491 Why?

The couple cried so much at the hospital that they fainted multiple times.

Sabrina, Ruth, and Kingston, as well as Kingston's parents, had been the ones who were taking care of Vincent and Helena.

Sabrina kept comforting the couple and said, "Mister and Missus Yates, Sebastian would do everything he can to look for Yvonne. Right now, having no news about Yvonne is the best news. Both of you have to take care of your health. When Yvonne returns with her twins, she will need both of you to take care of her children. If your health is ruined, then who could Yvonne rely on?"

What she said indeed made the couple much calmer. They were even willing to eat.

Vincent even said with high spirits, "Sabrina is right. We have to take good care of our health so we can take care of our grandchildren in the future."

Helena also nodded heavily. "Yes!"

That was hope.

Once a person has something to look forward to, the person will have the strength to live. Even if that kind of hope was slim, it was also a belief that could support everything.

Sabrina was covered in tears when she saw the old couple like that.

She was originally a kind woman who would not even dare to kill a fly. However, just like Sebastian, Sabrina had a vicious urge to kill deep down at that moment.

She forced herself to hold back her tears, hugged Helena, and comforted her with a smile. "Missus Yates, you have to eat more and exercise more. You will be busy when you have two grandchildren to take care of in the future. The two naughty children will tire you out quickly."

Helena immediately burst out laughing. "Mmhmm, good girl. I will remember that."

After she was done coaxing the couple, she kept them accompanied at the hospital for a few days. It was after Helena and Vincent were discharged from the hospital that Sabrina's busy days temporarily came to an end.

Fortunately, her children were very well-behaved.

Aino was already very capable of taking care of herself. The other two children were also like little gentlemen who were very sensible and did not need Sabrina to worry about them.

Other than working and returning home to care for her children, Sabrina spent most of her remaining time searching for all sorts of information regarding missing people.

As long as the person's physical characteristics were a tiny bit similar to Yvonne's, Sabrina would pay special attention to it. Even though there has been no news and no results, Sabrina never gave up.

Sebastian and Sabrina originally had planned to do romantic and passionate things together as a couple four times a week, but that was put aside because of this matter. However, the couple's affection for each other had never faded.

Sebastian was extremely busy during that period, and Sabrina had never bothered her husband as well.

She knew that her husband's pressure was much greater than hers.

Her husband was shouldering the responsibility for the entire Ford Group and even the survival of the entire South City. As long as this strong enemy had not appeared, nobody would know what was waiting for Sebastian and the Ford family.

One day, Marcus, who had been dispirited and had not made an appearance for a very long time, suddenly asked to meet both Sabrina and Sebastian at the same time.

Marcus' tone was incomparably calm when he called Sabrina. " Sabrina, I want to meet you. Let's meet at the cafe near Yvonne's house."

Sabrina asked with concern, "Marcus, are you alright?"

However, the call had already ended.

Sabrina took care of the work at hand and went to the cafe, when she arrived outside the cafe, she saw her husband, Sebastian.

"Was Marcus the one who had asked you to come as well?" Sabrina asked.

Sebastian nodded calmly.

Sabrina wrapped her arms around Sebastian's arm and said, "Let's go in, Sebastian. We have to face it together."

"Alright," said Sebastian.

Once both of them entered the cafe, they saw Marcus was already seated at the booth. They approached him, and Sabrina called out, " Marcus..."

Before she finished her sentence, she saw that Marcus got up, came to Sebastian, raised his fist, and violently punched Sebastian across his face. "Ford, I'll fight you to death!"

Chapter 2492 "Marcus, stop it!" Sabrina tried to block the punch, but she still could not prevent Sebastian from getting punched by Marcus.

Nobody had ever beaten up Sebastian like that for nearly twenty years. However, Sebastian did not fight back.

Sabrina felt so heartbroken as she touched Sebastian's face. " Sebastian, are you alright?"

Sebastian smiled calmly. "It’s just a punch. It's fine."

On the other hand, the hatred in both of Marcus' eyes was like erupting volcanoes. He glared at Sebastian but smiled coldly and said, "Sebastian, you've come out on top in South City for many years, and the Shaw family and I have always respected you.

Do you think we're afraid of you?"

"Wrong! The Shaw family is not as great as the Ford family now, but I am not an easy person to mess with! Even if my family can't compete with yours, I will let you have a taste of what it means to lose and have neither party gain anything in this war!"

"I have no children, and I'm all alone in the world. My three brothers have already gone abroad. Would I still be afraid of you, a man with a family and children?"

"Marcus Shaw!" Sabrina was also angered.

Marcus had always been gentle, refined, and incomparably kind by nature. How could he be so vicious that day that he even gambled on her children?

Sabrina could tolerate anything, but she could never tolerate others threatening her children. She would not allow it even if it were Marcus.

"Marcus! Even if Sebastian and I have done something wrong, you can't get my three children involved! Do you think you're the only one in this world who would fight someone to death? Do you think I won't? Bring it on!"

Marcus sneered. "Sabrina, I've always known that you're innocent! Ever since the first time I met you, your loneliness without any support and your incomparable strength was not just an act. I understand that you have nothing to do with this, and I won't let you, the innocent person, be implicated as well."

"However, your children are also Sebastian's children. Your children are Fords as well! Since Sebastian can be so vicious to me, why can't I be so vicious to him? If he had thought about his children and had taken his children into account, he wouldn't have been so cruel to my family!"

Sabrina gritted her teeth and said, "what the hell has he done to you? Even if you want US dead, you should also tell US what we died for, right?"

Marcus raised his gaze and glanced at Sebastian. "What the hell has he done? why don't you ask your husband? Didn't you see how calm your husband is?"

"He is my husband, so of course, I trust him the most. I won't ask him, and I'll only ask you! If you've had it wrong, then I will pay you back double how you hit my husband!" At that moment, Sabrina would not give in to Marcus anymore!

A compassionate expression appeared in Marcus' eyes.

He smiled miserably and said, "I remember back then, more than years ago, you were so helpless. You've never cared for any of the handouts and fundings Sebastian had given you. You had even given up the contractual amount of five million dollars Sebastian had given you. At that time, you had resolutely chosen to be on the run, and you never even looked back at Sebastian once." 1 "Even after he had found you and brought you back, you had never treated him nicely.

"However, you're different now. Your love for him is less than the care he had given you back then! Both of you are truly such a loving couple!"

Sabrina also sneered. "Marcus, aren't you just spewing nonsense? We've already had three children together. After braving the storm together, we learn the importance of loving each other! He is the father of my three children, my husband, and the head of my family!"

Chapter 2493 "I love him more than I love my own life. Of course, I have to protect him!"

"You've said it so affectionately! Have you, however, thought about someone else's wife, someone else's children, and someone else's family that your husband destroyed?" The conversation between the two of them had turned into a violent argument!

It was as if the volcanoes had erupted.

Sebastian, who was at the side, had been looking at them coldly.

"Marcus Shaw! If you have something to say, please stop beating around the bush! You'll only be wasting your own time!"

Sabrina no longer wanted to waste her time talking to Marcus anymore.

"Very well!" Marcus sneered. He did not look at Sabrina and just looked at Sebastian. "Sebastian Ford, it's already been so many years. Perhaps ever since my grandpa helped your mother give birth to you and your brother on Star Island, you and your mother already hated my grandpa and the Shaw family, right?"

Sebastian nodded. "You're right."

Sabrina was dumbfounded as she looked at Sebastian and then at Marcus.

Without waiting for Marcus to say anything else, Sebastian slowly and unhurriedly opened his mouth to speak. His voice was as cold as the lake that had been frozen over for a thousand years.

"Your grandfather clearly knew I was a child from the Ford family. He clearly knew that my mother was set up and toyed with by my father and his wife. However, he still chose to help my father and his wife."

"In fact, it was only out of guilt and pity that he had helped my mother give birth to my brother and me. Deep down, he had never treated me as a true member of the Ford family!"

"My mother had been with my father, Sean Ford, for so many years, and had been enduring humiliation, but she never had any proper status. My life has been filled with humiliation and unfair treatment because I've been labeled as an illegitimate child. Your grandfather had seen it all."

"However, he had always been helping the Ford family. That's because he had been friends with the Ford family for generations.

So what if they were a strong team! I, Sebastian Ford, am not afraid! I could overthrow all of you all the same!"

"Step by step, I took control of the entire Ford Group. I got rid of all the nonconformists, and then I continued to make the Ford Group stronger. I made it so strong that no one could compete with me. Then, when I come to deal with all of you in the Shaw family, it'll just be like stepping on an ant! I'll let the Shaw family have a taste of what it means to have your family torn apart, to be homeless, to be an illegitimate child, to have deaths in your family! II Marcus gritted his teeth and said every word slowly, "Sebastian Ford! I'll drink your blood..."

Sabrina, who was sandwiched between them, shouted as if she had gone mad, "what the hell is going on?"

The Shaw family was her family on the maternal side, after all. They were her mother's family. Therefore, when Sabrina heard Sebastian saying all that, she looked like her heart had been torn apart. She looked at Sebastian with tears welled up in her eyes.

"Sebastian, what the hell is going on? You're only pretending to be nice to the Shaw family for so many years? You're just waiting for the day to break the Shaw family down and step on them as if they were ants? I don't believe it! You're lying, aren't you, Sebastian? I've seen how good you've been to the Shaw family! Sebastian!"

"You've seen it?" Marcus pulled Sabrina over roughly and questioned her, "Then, do you know what happened to the 'me' who knocked Yvonne over until she was severely injured at the small city at the border down south?"

"The person who had knocked over Yvonne and made her severely injured was you! It was you! How would I know what happened?" Sabrina was so angry that she started to speak without thinking anymore.

Marcus' face was hideous, and his eyes were reddened as he sneered and looked at Sabrina. "Then let me tell you what really happened. The person who ran over Yvonne and caused her to be severely injured was not me! I already have concrete evidence that that 'me' was a special actor your husband got from the land across the Irriisle Harbor! He asked that actor to become my double using makeup and run my wife over!"

Sabrina said, "What are you talking about..."

Chapter 2494 Marcus did not answer Sabrina's question. He just looked at Sebastian and said with a sneer, "Ford, do you think that you're the only one in the world who's resourceful enough, and your plot is so flawless? Do you think the Shaw family is not capable of finding out what's going on?"

"Let me tell you something then. Ever since I came back to South City, I have indeed been dispirited and felt like I'm better off dead. However, the Shaw family has never slacked off in searching for my wife and finding out who was the one to set me up."

"The Shaw family indeed are not as powerful as the Ford family. However, it's fortunate that my grandpa's subordinates and apprentices are all over the world. It's not that hard to investigate something!"

"I've had someone do a sharpness enhancement on that video and have restored many aspects of it. I have to admit that you are really very capable. You are able to find someone that looked somewhat similar to me at the harbor and found such a skilled makeup artist to actually make that actor look exactly the same as me!"

"However, you didn't know that I had a very small purple birthmark the size of a finger behind my ear. However, this actor doesn't have it!"

"Sebastian, originally, if I knew you had framed me, I also wouldn't be able to defend myself. However, you didn't expect this, didn't you?" 1 Looking at Marcus, who had said so much, Sabrina looked like she was listening to an unfathomable story. She looked at Marcus for a moment and then at Sebastian the next moment.

Sebastian calmly nodded. "Yes, I had overlooked that..."

"Sebastian, you..." Sabrina did not know what to say.

Marcus raised his eyebrows, sneered as if he had gone almost insane, and wanted to remain calm. He raised his finger and pointed at Sebastian. "Sebastian Ford! I would like to see between the Ford family and the Shaw family which of US would win and which of us would lose in the end! I can't promise that I can win!"

"Whether my Yvonne is alive or dead is unknown, and the chances of her being alive are already almost close to none. So being alive to my family and me doesn't mean much anymore! Therefore, I will give my all to destroy the Ford family! From this moment on, don't you even think about having a peaceful life!"

"Sebastian, try and guess to what extent I would go to destroy your family. Do you want to see if the Shaw family is easy to mess with?"

Upon saying that, Marcus did not wait for Sabrina and Sebastian to reply. He just pulled the chair away and walked out with big strides.

Both of them watched him leave the cafe. Sabrina turned her gaze to look at Sebastian and said, "Sebastian, will this...work?"

Sebastian did not answer Sabrina. He was still looking at the figure outside the glass window, gradually going further away. He seemed like he was talking to Marcus' back but also seemed like he was talking to himself as he said, "of course, the Shaw family is not easy to mess with. If you guys are easy to mess with, the person who created this plot wouldn't have chosen your family."

"Although I was the Ford family's illegitimate child, you've always liked to follow me and play with me when you were a child.

Every summer, you would stick to me like glue and follow me to go swimming. Forget about the birthmark the size of a fingernail on your body. Even if it's just a mole the size of sesame, I would know all about it!"

Sabrina looked at her husband as he talked to himself. His tone was very calm, but Sabrina could feel the vicious intent in her husband's mind.

She rested her head on her husband's shoulder and asked calmly, " Sebastian, could we find out the person behind the scene by doing this?"

Sebastian's voice was very cold but also very certain. "This person still doesn't have the true capability to fight against me now.

Otherwise, he would not have thought of such an underhanded method to provoke the Shaw family into fighting me."

"That's because this person knew that it is only if the Shaw family were to fight against me that Alex and Kidon city would not be able to intervene and help any party. This person had already calculated that using the Shaw family to weaken my area of influence was a much safer method. At the same time, he can also thoroughly eradicate the Shaw family. He is killing two birds with one stone. This way, the entire South City would be his."

Chapter 2495 "A person who wanted to be invincible in South city must have been someone who had once been involved with South City, or the places surrounding South city, or just the south."

"Because Alex is in the north, no one would be able to enter through there, since this is the case, the scope is much narrower. As long as the person saw the Ford and Shaw families fighting each other to death, the person would surface."

Sabrina nodded. "That made sense as well. However, Sebastian, are you sure we're not going to tell Marcus? How much would Marcus hate us? He wants to fight US to death from now on. when the time comes, both parties truly will lose."

She looked at her husband with concern.

No matter which party would be hurt, that was not something that Sabrina would hope to see, let alone both parties might end up losing.

She was worried about Marcus, and she was even more so worried for her husband.

Sabrina said with a slight catch in her throat, "Sebastian, you've suffered too much your whole life. You've had to fight for everything since you were a child, and you've been through so many situations where you're just a hair breadth away from death.

We’ve finally got a family and three children now, and you've also started to live a peaceful life, but you have to fight again, who knows if you'll live or die next?"

"Sebastian, I don't want you guys to fight. Even if we have to give up everything, live in the mountains, stay anonymous, and live a very poor life, I also don't want you to fight. Sebastian, I just wanted you to live safely for the rest of your life. Even if you don't do anything and let me provide for you, I am also willing to do so. I can support you and our three children."

Sebastian was incomparably touched when he heard Sabrina saying that.

Plenty of women in this world wanted to be with Sebastian, even if they could only be his one-night stand. All of them fancied his money, power, and his appearance so much.

However, Sebastian was certain that the only woman willing to be with him even when he was dirt poor and would support him was Sabrina.

The most fortunate thing in Sebastian's life was that he had such a good wife.

The man raised his arm and put his wife in his embrace, then he smiled and said softly, "silly girl, what era do you think we're living in? The era of fighting with firearms had long passed. Now, the wars don't involve guns anymore. All the battles are in the business field."

"The Ford Group has been at the top in South city and has been unchallenged for more than a decade. So many people are jealous of me. When Marcus says he wants to defeat me, it's nothing more than crushing me in the war in business. If the Ford Group has collapsed, and if my assets are in the negative, then everything will be reduced to nothing. Even if I am still alive then, I would no longer be a threat."

"Don't worry. Your husband is already almost forty years old. I can be considered an old man. other than you, who else would even care for your husband's life?"

Sabrina stifled a burst of laughter when she heard Sebastian saying that.

She laughed and said, "I also don't want you to be completely broke. We still have three children to raise. It doesn't matter if we suffered, but how could we bear to let them suffer?"

Sebastian said, "Don't worry, silly girl. Nobody can destroy your husband's Ford Group. Even if all four Shaw brothers combined together to fight against me, they wouldn't be able to hurt me at all, let alone Marcus himself. But..."

"But what?" Sabrina asked.

Sebastian's expression suddenly became incredibly cold and vicious. "The battle between the Ford and Shaw family still has to be done perfectly, otherwise, who could we lure that force to make an appearance?"

Sabrina nodded solemnly. "Mmhmm!"

Chapter 2496 The move that Sebastian made was enough to disguise the truth.

He did not want to tell Marcus that someone wanted to take advantage of them and destroy both the Ford Group and the Shaw family simultaneously.

Sebastian let Marcus and the entire Shaw family blindly misunderstand that it was him who had gotten a person to pretend to be Marcus and then have Yvonne killed. Then, Marcus and his parents would hate Sebastian to their bone. That kind of deep- seated hatred could not be faked.

Even when Gloria saw her son-in-law, she questioned him without caring about the time and place.

Gloria had always been a decent person, and that was the first time she came to his company's entrance and burst out cursing at him.

It was really because Gloria could not find him elsewhere. She called her daughter, but she did not even pick up the call. Later, Gloria gave it another thought. Her daughter was also in a difficult position being sandwiched in between them. Instead of questioning her daughter, she might as well achieve her objective by directly questioning her son-in-law.

However, no matter where she went, be it their house or elsewhere, she could not meet her son-in-law.

In the end, she went to the entrance of the Ford Group and cursed at Sebastian.

She was such an elegant old lady, but she scolded him so aggressively that her face was completely reddened. "You heartless jerk! You even tricked your own wife! Do you know who the Shaw family is? They are your wife's family! They are my family! You ungrateful jerk! Bastard! I could tell that you're a savage beast! Sebastian Ford, come out here! If you don't come out, I'll stay here and curse for a few days and nights!"

A decently dressed old lady screaming and shouting drew endless sidelong glances from passersby.

Later, the security manager truly could not ignore her anymore, and came out and said to Gloria, "Lady, you..."

"Who is the lady? Am I that old? Did your director ask you to call me a lady and chase me away?" Gloria scolded.

The security manager said awkwardly, "Even if you were to stay here and curse for three days and three nights, Mister Ford wouldn't come out. You don’t pay attention to the news, so you probably aren't clear about it. The Ford Group’s stocks have been falling across the board in the past few days. Mister Ford's already been snowed under." 1 "What does falling across the board mean?" Gloria hated Sebastian so much that she gritted her teeth, but deep down, she still cared for her daughter and her son-in-law. Once she heard the security saying that, she immediately stopped shouting. Instead, she asked with great concern, "w...what did you say? what does it mean when the stocks fall? Is the Ford Group going to be finished?"

In the past few days, Gloria had indeed heard too much regarding Sebastian from her brother and his wife. 1 Gloria felt that her brother, his wife, and also Marcus had already made up their mind. They kept making calls to all of those old subordinates of their father all over the country, and they received hundreds of responses.

Gloria was extremely anxious. She had asked her brother and his wife.

Her brother said to her helplessly, "Gloria, I know that Sebastian is your son-in-law. However, this matter is related to the survival of the Shaw family. Even if we don't go against Sebastian, he will also annihilate the Shaw family.

"Don't worry, Gloria. Even if we were lucky enough to defeat Sebastian one day, you would still be our Gloria. The same goes for Sabrina as well. As her uncle, I will raise her and her three children. If the Shaw family were completely defeated in our battle against Sebastian, I think Sebastian won't do anything to you, his mother- in-law, no matter what.

"Therefore, Gloria, don't get involved in this matter. Just take it as leaving a way out for you and your daughter, Sabrina. After all, both of you had suffered way too much in this life. I still have some money on me. Take it and hide for a while."

Chapter 2497 Gloria instantly burst out in tears when she heard her brother saying that.

She said to her brother in tears, "I'll go question Sebastian. If that jerk really wants to exterminate all of you, then I will kill myself in front of him!"

That was Gloria's promise to her brother.

However, in private, Gloria did not hate this son-in-law of hers at all.

How should she explain to her brother then?

Therefore, Gloria was caught between a rock and a hard place.

At that moment, she was anxious beyond measure after she heard Sebastian's company's stocks kept falling.

She grabbed the security manager’s hand and shook it. "Tell me. Tell me quickly, what does it mean for the stocks to fall? Does the Shaw family defeat the Ford family?"

If that were the case, then the weight on Gloria's chest would be slightly relieved.

That was because she did not wish for her family, her brother, and her nephew to be killed by Sebastian.

However, if the Shaw family had defeated Sebastian, she could beg for her brother and his wife to spare Sebastian's life. After that, she could take her savings, her daughter, her son-in-law, and her grandchildren to live anonymously from then on.

The security manager shook his head and said to Gloria, "We still don’t know that so far. The Ford Group won't collapse in just a few days, but I can't be sure how long this would last as well. Miss, just go home. If you have any personal grudges against Mister Ford, just wait until Mister Ford leaves the company, alright?"

It was not convenient for Gloria to say more.

She returned sadly to the Shaw Residence. However, she saw her brother and his wife were at a loss as well.

"Oliver, Paige, what's the matter? I heard from everyone on the streets that the Ford Group's stocks are falling. Isn't that a good thing for us?" Gloria asked with concern.

Her brother shook his head. "Marcus had not eaten or drunk anything for three days and three nights. If they continued fighting so viciously like that, both parties would end up losing. The Ford Group is not that easy to deal with. Their business is indeed huge."

Speaking of that, her brother sneered. "However, even if we both end up being losers, we can't go easy on Sebastian! That's because even if we don't fight, he would also swallow the Shaw family whole! At this moment, even if the Shaw family doesn't conquer the Ford Group, we would try to paralyze it!

The strength of the Shaw family really was not to be underestimated.

In just one month, they had made the Ford Group's business shrink by almost a third, and they had already reached a stage where they were heavily indebted.

Both parties had an intense fight in the war of business.

The entire South City was already in the middle of invisible bloodshed.

Sebastian appeared to be extremely exhausted. Marcus also looked older, had a beard, and was so thin that he looked out of shape.

South City, the big nationalized city, had never encountered such a situation in more than two hundred years.

It was as if the economy of the entire South City had been paralyzed, and they really desperately needed a person to appear out of nowhere to save the entire thing.

At that moment, in an inconspicuous estate nearly 100 kilometers away from South City, a middle-aged man said to another slightly younger man in his 30s, "Now, I'm guessing both the Ford family and Shaw family are already losing. Eldon, it should be your time to make your move now. I think very highly of you. Are you willing to make some contribution?"

The man in his 30s named Eldon Carver said respectfully and calmly, "Sir, you are my benefactor. I will be willing to do anything for you, even if I had to go through fire and water for you."

The middle-aged man was very pleased. He smiled and said, "Go on then. It's time for you to show off your skills."

"Yes, sir!" Eldon answered.

Chapter 2498 "His name is Eldon Carver?" Sebastian asked while looking at Kingston, who was standing in front of him.

Kingston nodded. "Yes, Master Sebastian."

Kingston's complexion looked dull. He was only away from Sebastian’s side for a few days, and he already looked visibly thinner.

He had always been a cheerful and healthy man, so much so that he was already a fully grown man, but he could often play together with Aino. He was very much a child at heart. However, because Yvonne had gone missing, the entire Yates family had been gloomy in those days.

Kingston loved this cousin of his the most.

In the past few days, he had been so heartbroken and so occupied looking for her, that he was already almost losing his original shape.

At that moment, Kingston, who looked out of shape, was as vicious as Sebastian back then when he spoke, "This man named Eldon better not fall into my hands. If I caught him, I would skin him! I would break every bone in this body!"

Sebastian raised his head to look at Kingston, gritting his teeth, but he did not say anything.

Sebastian understood Kingston's feelings very well.

If Eldon was caught by them, then they certainly must let him receive the harshest punishment ever!

"Checkhis background from childhood to his adulthood!" said Sebastian calmly.

"Yes, Master Sebastian!" Kingston turned around and left.

"Comeback!" Sebastian called out to Kingston again.

Kingston turned around. "Master Sebastian, do you have any other orders?"

Sebastian's tone was still very calm. "When you catch this man, take him to see me first!"

Kingston said, "Master Sebastian..."

"I want to slice him into pieces myself!"

Kingston replied, "Understood, Master Sebastian!"

Upon saying that, he immediately went out.

At that moment, the person who had surfaced was Eldon. Kingston had to investigate this man named Eldon.

He originally thought that it would be hard to investigate Eldon. However, before Kingston made his move, Eldon had already made his move first.

Eldon has plenty of money. He first acquired some of the Shaw family's business at the speed of light, when these businesses had been acquired, Marcus was stunned.

How could Eldon act so quickly and so silently?

Marcus had plenty of suspicions in his mind. However, the contract of sale was signed by himself. He sold these struggling companies because the Shaw family had exhausted an unprecedentedly large amount of resources fighting the Ford Group.

If he did not get more major shareholders in, the Shaw family would not be able to hold on. Therefore, he sold the companies. 1 However, he did not expect that someone would buy it as soon as he wanted to sell it. It was as if that person had been waiting.

It was as if that person was deliberately waiting for Marcus to sell his companies.

Marcus, who had signed the contract, calmed down.

He calmly asked the young man in front of him, who was not that much older than himself, "Your name is Eldon Carver?"

Eldon said with the same kind of calmness, "That's right. Do you have any questions, Mister Shaw?"

"I had never heard of your name in the country," said Marcus.

Eldon smiled in a restrained manner. "Do you think in this entire country, only those few big eminent families like yours have a name, and the others don't deserve to have names? Our country is so vast. We have more than millions of people. Do you think that only big, eminent families like yours exist?"

Marcus was left at a loss for words for a very long while by what Eldon had said.

He could not help but carefully observe the man before him.

Chapter 2499 The man was spirited, valiant, and had mature charm. He did not look like a bad person who would take advantage of others at all.

Eldon's appearance, on the contrary, was the kind Marcus appreciated very much.

This man was calm, reserved, and not arrogant at all. He was not at all cheesy, much less the look of new money.

Marcus could not feel a chill down his spine.

That made Marcus even more certain about one thing. This acquirer named Eldon had come prepared.

"Mister Carver, may I know, have you...been developing your business abroad all this while?" Marcus asked in a probing manner.

Eldon did not want to answer Marcus. "Does that have anything to do with you?"

Marcus said, "You..."

"Mister Shaw, goodbye!" Eldon got up and left.

When Eldon got to the door, he turned his head back and said to Marcus very seriously, "Mister Shaw, you can’t have your office, even your desk, and even anything at all in this entire building anymore by next week. You should know that well, right?"

"There's no need for you to remind me about this!" Marcus said with great irritability.

Fighting with Sebastian was already exhausting enough and annoying enough for him. However, the man named Eldon at that moment made him feel an incomparable terrifying feeling.

As soon as Eldon left, Marcus called his subordinate to come in over the phone, "Check on Eldon. See if he is Sebastian's man!"

The subordinate immediately said, "Yes!"

After receiving the order from Marcus, the subordinate tailed behind Eldon's car. As he followed him, he realized that the man named Eldon had really gone to the Ford Group.

He was stunned.

He immediately called Marcus, "Mister Shaw, that person went to the Ford Group.

Marcus was speechless.

After a long while, he picked up the cup on the table and smashed it hard on the floor. Then, he gritted his teeth and said, "Sebastian Ford! The grudge between you and I is absolutely irreconcilable!"

Immediately after, he made another phone call. "Sell them! Sell them all! Sell all the shares the Shaw family has in all businesses and all industries! Even the shares that are fifty-one percent sell all of them! Not only do I want to sell them, but I also want to continue letting the Ford Group's stock's value crash!"

Marcus was practically crazy and ruthless.

All of the Shaw family's businesses were in turmoil with his order.

Marcus was also so occupied that he did not sleep the whole night. He was either answering calls or having a meeting with someone. Just like that, he was occupied for the entire night. The following morning, when he had just walked out of his house, he saw the man named Eldon at the door.

Marcus forced himself to suppress his anger and asked, "Mister Carver, we don't seem to have anything to do with each other anymore. Why would you appear at my door?"

Eldon was still very serious. "You're wrong, Mister Shaw. I am waiting at your door because almost all of your family's businesses have been sold by you, and I can't find you elsewhere. Therefore, I can only wait for you at the door to your house."

"Since you already acquired the Shaw family's businesses, then why are you still waiting for me at my door?" Marcus asked.

Immediate after, he asked again, "Are you here to laugh at me on behalf of your master, Sebastian Ford? Listen to me, Mister Carver. You can go back and tell your master that I will let him have a taste of what it's like to end up in a no-win situation."

Eldon shook his head again. "You're wrong, Marcus. Me being here has nothing to do with that Sebastian Ford person you mentioned. I am here specifically to look for you and buy the shares that you're about to sell. Didn't you already put them up for sales yesterday?"

Mascus asked, "what did you say?"

At that moment, Marcus' phone rang. He picked it up and answered it. It was his subordinate who called. "Mister Shaw, the information from yesterday is wrong. Eldon is not Sebastian's man. He went to Sebastian's company yesterday to talk about...

acquisition."

Hearing this news, Marcus looked at Eldon in a daze. "Who...the hell are you?"

Chapter 2500 Eldon had a sharp gaze and a calm expression. "Mister Shaw, it doesn't matter who I am. what matters is whether the Shaw family's companies are still up for sale?"

"No, they are not!" No matter how foolish he was, Marcus was able to sense that something was not right at that moment.

A faint smile appeared on Eldon's face. "I'm sorry, Mister Shaw, I'm afraid this decision is no longer yours to make because..."

Marcus was so shocked that he took a few steps back. "You...

Because of what?"

"Because I now hold fifty-one percent of shares of all of the Shaw family's companies combined. Right now, you no longer have the right to call the shots for your family's companies anymore. I, on the other hand, have the right to manage them."

Marcus was speechless.

He was completely stunned.

Without him realizing it, the Shaw family had already lost the majority of its companies in the battle between them and the Ford family. They have lost so much that they do not even have the right to be in control anymore.

It was truly ridiculous when he thought about it. It was both ridiculous and also detestable.

Marcus sneered. "I want to ask you about something!"

Eldon answered very directly, "Go ahead, Mister Shaw!"

"You can take all of the companies away, but I must let the Ford Group's shares crash!"

Eldon said very seriously as if he was making a report at work, " Isn't that what I'm doing right now? To be honest with you, I had just obtained fifty-one percent of the Ford Group's shares yesterday. From today on, just like the Shaw family, the Ford Group also no longer has the right to make decisions for itself anymore. Both of you are equals."

Upon saying that, he still looked at Marcus seriously.

Marcus felt a chill down his spine.

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have walked into a kind of trap. Not only himself but the Ford Group as well.

What was going on?

It was as if he had been sucked into a deep vortex of trouble.

Before Marcus regained his senses, the man named Eldon had already gone into his car. After he got in, Eldon winded down the window and said to him, "The Ford Group is very passive now, and their situation is very miserable. I am going to the Ford Group for a meeting again. In the near future, Sebastian would be completely driven out of the Ford Group. He would no longer be any different from any other ordinary person in this city. Mister Shaw, if you want to deal with Sebastian, the time has come."

The time has come.

When Marcus heard that, he did not know if he was feeling happy or not.

As he looked at the car driving further away, he felt a mixed feeling.

"What's the matter, Marcus?" Marcus' mother appeared behind him at some point. Her voice was slightly tired. "Weren't you going to the company to handle some business? Why are you standing here?"

"Mom, I may no longer need to go to the company anymore in the future because the majority of the Shaw family's shares are already in another person's hands. The Shaw family's companies no longer belong to us anymore in the future." There was still some desolation in Marcus' tone, after all.

His mother sighed and said, "Ever since ancient times, not a single king can remain on his throne forever, let alone the fact that we are just moderately wealthy people. So what if we are rich? So what if we are poor? I don't care about all that. I just want a simple life. It's such a pity that we've lost our great daughter-in-law, Yvonne. If Yvonne were still around, I would be more willing to give all of the family's companies to the Ford family than to fight them to death like that.

"However, who could have known that Sebastian had such well- hidden intentions? Perhaps he already hated everyone since the moment he witnessed his mother being treated unfairly with his own eyes at the age of fifteen. The Ford family, the Shaw family, and also everyone that had once wronged him. Perhaps this is just fate."

"Fate? Who gives a shit about fate?" Marcus' eyes were reddened. " We, the Shaw family, have never wronged Sebastian. My grandpa had helped his mother. Besides, even if he was angry, he could have directly told me. I would have given up everything in the Shaw family. Why did he choose to go after Yvonne?

"Since he had chosen to attack the least lethal and the kindest member of our family, who is also the woman I love the most, then Sebastian clearly wants to fight the Shaw family and myself to the death."